Buffalo, NY – About 100 people who spent most of the night in their snowbound cars on the New York State Thruway are finally being freed.
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Troopers used all-terrain vehicles and snowmobiles to keep in touch with motorists who got stuck when blowing snow shut down a stretch of Interstate 90 from Dunkirk, N.Y., to Erie, Pa., at about 1:30 a.m.
Emergency crews topped off gas tanks and checked on people by cell phone during the night before starting to turn drivers around and guide them off the closed roadway Friday morning.
The Lake Erie-fed snow continues to fall in the border area and other regions south and east of Buffalo during this second day of the season’s first big storm. And lake-effect snow off Lake Ontario is pounding New York’s Oneida County.
Wow that’s scary
I have heard before that if someone is starting out on a road in bad weather, take blankets, food, water, flashlights, aspirin, prescription meds, flares, car cell charger, and there are even warmers for fingers and toes that can be activated.
North of Toronto, there’s five feet/100 CM of snow in just one week.